Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 12, the bug hunt
Device crashes are one of the worst things about developing for the Playdate, I hope if you are ever in that situation, this helps.
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Two friends making games by hand.
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Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 11, the spinner spring
A pinball spinner behaves like a spring if you think about it.
Making a pinball game for playdate: Part 10, the events and actions
Events and actions handle most of the logic of our pinball game
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 09, the ball HUD
How do we show how many chances you have left?
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 08, the entities and their components
How do we organize our game entities and their components.
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part ??, the secret project
What happened in the last six months?
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 07, the debugger
Searching for a debugger on Linux
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 06, the profiler
Learning how to use a profiler
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 05, the spatial partition
2 Bits image formats.
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 04, the image format
2 Bits image formats.
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 03, the first level editor
How did we choose our first level editor for the game?
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 02, the physics
Let's talk about physics.
Making a pinball game for Playdate: Part 01, the language
Welcome to this December adventure, where I will try to write about the process of our last game, Devils on the Moon pinball. Today I will talk about our choice of programming language for the game.
Let’s finish this
We are back working on Pullfrog! What happened?
Let's talk about Don Salmon
Don salmon, a new platforming game made in Godot and a small update on Pullfrog
Spooky eyes and level editors
Last year we made the decision to take a break and focus on a spooky game around the spooky season.
This kills the frog
After rewriting the physics system for the third time, it was time to start working on more fun stuff. The frog death system™.
On starting a game
A couple of things I would recommend when starting your first game on the Playdate.
How to correct a corner
There are many techniques that you can apply so that a platformer game feels good. One of those is corner correction.
On "Bouncy" Animation
Another Equally important decision, is choosing which poses you want to emphasize in order to get that reactive feeling when a character interacts with the world.
The collision stair case
As stated on the previous post, updating all the pieces all the time was a bad idea. We needed to figure out a way to update only the ones that needed to be updated after another block got destroyed. The quick and dirty solution was to check all the pieces inside a bounding box on top of the piece that got destroyed.
About Amano & the collision conundrum
So, a couple of months back, Mario and I were happily working away on The game, finding out the workflow and working out the kinks of developing for the PlayDate. We laid down the main mechanic, blocks were falling and colliding correctly the character was moving alright but we were doing everything on the simulator, NOT testing on the actual device. so when we decided to take it for a spin… it…
Pullfrog postmortem, Long Live Pullfrog 2-Bits
So towards the end of the year, Mario managed to get his hands on a Development console for the handheld "Playdate" and we decided to attempt do make a second version of Pullfrog, this time featuring a playful little crank and seemingly less restrictions except for the apparent ones like the black and white color of the screen. Oh the naivety.